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Post by Charisma69 on Oct 23, 2004 21:16:25 GMT -5
I figured it was about time I started a poll here. ;D
So many scary movies, so many hard choices. What do you guys think?
[Scary Voice]What's your favorite scary movie?[/Scary Voice]
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Post by Insane Troll Logic on Oct 23, 2004 21:19:29 GMT -5
I voted or Evil Dead, cos it's so funny - but the creepiest horror has to be either the Exorcist or the Ring.....
;D
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Post by Charisma69 on Oct 23, 2004 21:22:22 GMT -5
The Exorcist! *smacks forehead* How could I forget that?
Like I said, so many good scary movies so hard to choose.
For me, The Ring and The Grudge are the scariest ones I've seen.
Evil Dead is so very funny. I love those movies. They're so bad, they're good.
The Hellraiser movies are great as well.
I just love scary movies. ;D
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Oct 23, 2004 21:26:15 GMT -5
I liked the original Nightmare on Elm Street. As far as creep factor, Phantasm really unnerved me more than most. When I was a kid, the local theater would show House of Wax with the 3-d glasses at Halloween. That was always fun. I am probably one of the few people who got tired of The Ring before I was scared. Yes, it was creepy, but I thought they strung you along for too long. If you haven't figured out by now, "bored now" could easily be my catch phrase.
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Post by Insane Troll Logic on Oct 23, 2004 21:29:00 GMT -5
One thing I like about the original Japanese Ring is the end scene - very good!
;D
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Post by Charisma69 on Oct 23, 2004 21:30:28 GMT -5
That was my son's reaction to the movie. He fell asleep during the movie.
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Post by Bango on Oct 24, 2004 1:22:14 GMT -5
The most scariest movie in my opinion would be Halloween 6: Curse of Michael Myers. I don't know why, but it's the only one that has scared me. Once I saw it, I vowed to NEVER see it ever again.
When I was younger I was afraid of the movies, "Childs Play", mainly because I was about the age of the kid at the time, and I had the same name as the kid in the movie. I was always afraid that Chucky would try and take my soul...
I remember being scared, when I was younger, of the Friday the 13th movies. Now that I've gotten older and look back on it, the movies were really stupid. Every single one was about killing the teenagers who have dirty sex.
I was never afraid of the Nightmare On Elm Street series. I remember when I was a kid, watching every saturday a certain movie from the series, with the guy who played Freddie hosting the movie nights.
I used to like the Scream trilogies, but looking back every single one ended real stupid with the killer acting so insane near the end that it totally ruined how the revelation was revealed...its stupid how the "killers" were always sane and normal before the big revelation, and when it's time to reveal them they act all insane and crazy.
I did like I Know What You Did Last Summer. Many fans say SMG wasn't good in it, but I disagree. I sort of liked the sequel. The only riff I had with it was that it ended with the "killer" acting insane which took me back to the lame endings of Scream 1,2,3.
As you can tell I used to be a fan of scary movies. Not so much today. To me, horror movies were movies that creeped you out. Had you on the edge of your seats. Scenes made your heart beat with fright. Plus the little dab of drama and mystery also made it great...
Nowadays horror movies contain blood, blood, and more blood. A crazy psycho in a mask chasing people with a chain saw, butcher knife or whatever suits them. And the notion that all horror films must contain teens or adults having sex just before they're killed. Plus again with the blood, blood, blood. I hate gore. I don't want to pay to see a movie where all the movie is about, is some freak cutting off people's body parts and having blood spew out everywhere in the screen. Not my taste.
Many say that's the traditional American horror genre. I say no. Look at the horror movies of the early 20's and 30's. Those were the golden days when movies were great with the horror. It was spooky, mysterious. Had a story to it. I have much respect for those than I do the recent ones in the past 3 decades.
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Post by TealBox on Oct 24, 2004 9:34:57 GMT -5
Horror is a genre that has made me question my movie taste more than I would have cared to. Horror movies are cool in theory, but looking over them I can't think of any single one that has been able to scare me since I was 8. I find myself laughing at them mostly, repeatedly going over their plot holes in my head, and being bugged to Hell when the heroine doesn't grab the killer's dropped weapon and murder him when she has the chance but instead decides to run away and two seconds later trips over absolutely nothing (I get where Joss got the inspiration for Buffy). Horror movies make me scream, but less in fear and more at the screen. So come to think of it the two movies that have scared me the most are The Truman Show and Being John Malcovich. Even to this day I still worry that all of my life is just a TV show or that somewhere there is a door to my mind and a puppeteer will take me over one day. I think to make a successful horror movies they'll have to start combining that kind of fear with creepy factor of monster movies. Now, as for the nudity and blood, I believe there are actually two kinds of horror movies. You have your movies like The Exorcist or The Ring that try to present a scary story and then you've got your low-budget slashers like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th where they try to present horrific images. These types of movies aren't made to make you think but rather to show off some SFX guy's mad skills. Of course nobody wants to watch 2 hours of people being hacked to death (well, except maybe fans of The Passion ) so they throw in the soft core porn. It scares you on the most basic level, if you think about it there is no way an axe murder is standing behind you just because you watched a movie, but that's why they didn't put anything into the movie that would provoke thought, the sex also plays in there as if you've got sex on the brain chances are you don't have much else going on up there at the moment. It is actually overly formulated for just a bunch of nerdy guys who want to scare children.
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Post by Charisma69 on Oct 24, 2004 14:46:59 GMT -5
The reason I like most of the scary movies I do is because they're a silly form on entertainment.
Evil Dead is one of my favorite horror films. That movie is so very cheesy and it exploits every horror cliche, but that's what makes it so much fun.
Scary movies have never scared me. I laughed at all the Nightmare on Elm Street films, they are so very funny.
The Ring did give me the wiggens, but I was watching it alone at night. Plus, the Japanese have a very different style of horror. A much scarier style in my opinion. I so need to see the original.
The thing about teens having sex and then getting killed in horror movies is a metaphor for the dangers of teen sex. Basically it's more of a scare tactic. If you have sex, you're going to die.
I don't watch horror films to learn anything from them. I watch them to be entertained. But not every horror film succeeds at this. It's a fine line between being entertaining and being too cheesy.
"House Of The Dead", the Rob Zombie film, is was too cheesy. And that blonde girl - I really wish to do bodily harm to her. She's so very annoying.
It would be so cool to cast Samuel Jackson in that film, and have him revive his Pulp Fiction persona - watch him go medieval on her @ss!
I enjoyed the Scream films, because I loved how they were making fun of the genre. The reason the villian went psycho at the end, was because they so often do that in any horror movie.
The Scream movies were just having fun with the movie cliche's.
I just like scary movies because every once in awhile you just need to turn off your mind and enjoy completely mindless entertainment.
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Post by Bango on Oct 24, 2004 17:03:29 GMT -5
I just like scary movies because every once in awhile you just need to turn off your mind and enjoy completely mindless entertainment.That's why cartoons were invented. ;D
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Post by Charisma69 on Oct 24, 2004 18:27:54 GMT -5
But some of those are way too mindless and much too painful to have to sit through.
Of course there are some good ones like, The Simpsons, South Park, Beavis and Butthead, and Daria. Those are never too painful to watch. ;D
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Oct 24, 2004 19:47:38 GMT -5
Did anyone ever see House? I always thought it was a bit more original than most horror movies at the time. Plus it's fun to see "Bull" from Night Court playing a different character.
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Post by Charisma69 on Oct 24, 2004 19:57:01 GMT -5
I don't ever remember hearing about that one. What's it about?
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Oct 24, 2004 20:05:37 GMT -5
The main character is a writer and a Vietnam vet. His aunt dies and leaves him her house. He has just gone through a divorce and his son disappeared a few years earlier. He moves in and tries to write, but strange things keep happening in the house. He has flashbacks to when his son disappeared and back to Vietnam. George Wendt is his next door neighbor. It has its funny moments as well as creepy ones.
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Post by Charisma69 on Oct 24, 2004 20:10:33 GMT -5
Is that the one where he ends up finding his son by going behind the medicine cabinet, or maybe it was a door? Something like that?
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